Yes, and from a vendor stand point, since the Ported Tools are NOT standard install, you cannot depend upon them being available at the site.
Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 1, 2012 4:09:07 PM Subject: Re: How convert "historic" STCK to local time? Guys, Are you saying Unix on z/os is lacking tools ? Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Mar 1, 2012, at 4:01 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> wrote: > Curiousity, what do you mean by "proper integration of Unix Services in MVS"? >Are there services in other versions of UNIX that you'd like to see in z/OS >UNIX? Or is it that z/OS UNIX is (how?) not properly integrated into z/OS? > > > What would I like? A complete GNU tool chain. Also, current versions of Perl, >python, ruby, gawk, sed, grep, bash, vim, emacs(?). Of course, I realise that >IBM cannot afford to supply these things for free. I, personally, cannot >attempt >to "port" this because: (1) we don't have a C license; (2) we are CPU critical >and constantly monitoring to reduce our MSUs to reduce our software costs; (3) >I >likely don't have the talent. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or >proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact >the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. >HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the >insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance >Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The >MEGA >Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) >> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 7:18 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: How convert "historic" STCK to local time? >> >> In <[email protected]>, on 02/29/2012 >> at 07:05 AM, Shane Ginnane <[email protected]> said: >> >>> Yep, it's called TZDATA. Pity IBM hasn't gotten sufficiently >>> organized to embrace it for z/OS Damn, I guess that places me >>> alongside gil/John. Thus a (nominal) triumvirate - perchance to >>> progress to a fully populated cabal someday ? >> >> I'm a member od a different cabal; I want *both* proper integration of >> Unix Services in MVS *and* all of the tools that I would expect on >> other *ix platforms, e.g., a current[1][2] Perl, OOREXX. >> >> [1] I'm looking to upgrade my OS/2 system from Perl 5.10.0 to 5.14 >> while MVS is stuck on 5.8.7. >> >> [2] Yes, it would take a lot of work to resolve the EBCDIC-Unicode >> issues. Perhaps they could offer Perl 6 instead? >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT >> ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> >> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >> (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
